Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Ian Masters
Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, expert guests, policymakers, and critics offering analysis and insight on national security, foreign and domestic policy, political, cultural, and social issues.
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Jan 6, 2025 • 1h 3min
January 6, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Andrew Latham | Thanassis Cambanis
Trump's Orwellian January 6 Victory - Four Years Later Lies Have Won and Truth is Endangered | Today's Resignation of Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau After 9 Years in Office | The Need to Lift Sanctions on Syria Before Chaos Consumes a Failed State
Jan 5, 2025 • 1h 3min
January 5, 2025 - Karen Greenberg | Ruth Ben Ghiat | Craig Aaron
Trump's Ominous Response to the Recent Terrorist Attacks | An American Despot is About to Take Charge With So Much More Power Than Hitler Had in 1933 | A Republican Court Kills Net Neutrality to Reward Unpopular and Antiquated Cable and Telecom Giants
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Jan 2, 2025 • 1h 11min
January 2, 2025 - Robert Pape | Chris McGreal | Stephen Wertheim
The Latest on the Investigations Into the New Year's Massacre in New Orleans and the Tesla Cyber Truck Explosion in Front of the Trump Hotel | Contrasting the Divisive Trump With Jimmy Carter Who Tried to Bridge Divides | Could Trump be a Peacemaker Even If He Only Wants to Win a Nobel Prize?
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Jan 1, 2025 • 1h 35min
January 1, 2025 - Wendy Brown | Richard Beck | Brooke Harrington
Will the Democrats Confront the Economic Conditions That Gave Rise to Right Wing Populism? | How 9/11 Made the Trump Presidency Possible and Hollowed Out the Very Idea of Citizenship in the US | Plutocrats No Longer Shape Our Government Behind the Scenes, Musk is Now Giving House Republicans Orders
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Dec 31, 2024 • 1h 18min
December 31, 2024 - Jason Stanley | Gareth Gore | Timothy Shenk
We Should Take Trump at His Word That He Wants to be a Dictator and Jail His Opponents and the Press | A Deep Investigation of the Far-Right Cult Opus Dei and Its Infiltration of American Politics at the Highest Level | With the Blame Game Underway, the Democrats Need to Focus on Accountability and a Coherent Strategy
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Dec 30, 2024 • 1h 15min
December 30, 2024 - Sarah Churchwell | Samuel Moyn | Steve Benen
A View From Abroad as Biden Stands Between the Survival of Global Democracy and the Rule of Law and Dictatorship | Beyond Biden, America Has a Problem With Gerontocracy | How a Reality TV Star Living in His Own Reality Captured the GOP and up to Half of Americans Now Living in a Phony Reality
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Dec 29, 2024 • 1h 27min
December 29, 2024 - Miles Taylor | Oona Hathaway | Nick Bryant
As Trump Encourages Secession and Threatens Civil War, He Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving to China and Russia | Strengthening the Laws of War as Non-combatants Die in Gaza and Ukraine | The Inevitability of Trump 250 Years in the Making With the U.S. Captive to Its Contentious Past
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Dec 25, 2024 • 1h 1min
December 25, 2024 - Rev. Mitri Raheb | James Carroll
A Christmas Day Message From Bethlehem | The Outsized Influence of the Catholic Far Right on the Supreme Court and Project 2025
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Dec 24, 2024 • 60min
December 24, 2024 - Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis | Diane Winston
The Contrast Between the Prophet of the Poor and Trump's Billionaires Who Own the White House and Have the Supreme Court | The Troubling Religious Beliefs of Trump's Team of "Christian" Zionists
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Dec 23, 2024 • 1h 6min
December 23, 2024 - Lisa Graves | John Nichols | Wendy Via
Trump's Triumph of Lawlessness and the Weaponization of Kash Patel's Federal Bureau of Retribution | Will Elon Musk's Threat to Deploy His Unlimited Amounts of Campaign Money Bring All Republicans to Heel? | With Trump Back Hate and Extremism Are on the Back Burner For Now
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